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Who was this madman who sent lightning bolts up to the sky and blew the electric company's generator, plunging Colorado Springs into darkness? He was Nikola Tesla, and the year was 1899. Tesla and...

As an inventor Nikola Tesla had the unusual experience of living for half a century after some of his most important discoveries and developments were announced to the world. He was thus able to see...

New York, Jan. 8. (U.P.) — Nikola Tesla, 86, the electrical genius who discovered the fundamental principle of modern radio, was found dead in his hotel room last night. He died in bed sometime...

His Name Is Branding Magic; Thomas Edison Is ‘So 20th Century' Decades after he died penniless, Nikola Tesla is elbowing aside his old adversary Thomas Edison in the pantheon of geek gods. When...

Mr. Tesla's Experiments with High Frequency Alternations. The electrical world is just now experiencing a thrill of delight because of the remarkable experiments of Nikola Tesla, a young Austro...

A potent "little brother" to "Big TC," this Tesla coil version is inexpensive, easy to build, and it can put out 30,000 volts! If you have read the preceding article on "Big TC," you will have learned...

He Delivers an Interesting Lecture to Electrical Engineers. The Electrical Engineer of this week will contain an interesting account of the session of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers...

A quarter of a million volts? All it takes is a transformer, a capacitor, a spark gap, and Tesla's famous coil TESLA COILS have fascinated experimenters ever since the early 1900's when Nikola Tesla...

Build a solid-state version of Tesla's famous coil. It is easier to build and safer to operate. Nikola Tesla's coil is alive and well today, living in school labs and hobbyist's workshops as a tool...

A unique demonstration of electrical resonance for the experienced hobbyist. The spark-excited Tesla high-frequency transformer provides a display that leaves most first-time observers wide-eyed and...